Visual Studio sure has lots of neat extensions that add tons of value. http://vswebessentials.com/ is my fav.
They would add even more value if they were supported by the Express versions of the product.
Introducing Bing Code Search for C#
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Re: Introducing Bing Code Search for C#
#62It's interesting that the example code shown is so clunky. It uses try-finally to manually dispose the resource when the idiomatic way would be to wrap it in a using block:
using (var file2 = new StreamReader(file))
{
while ((line = file2.ReadLine()) != null)
Console.WriteLine(line);
}
Re: Introducing Bing Code Search for C#
#63Earlier quoted context omitted.
Personally, it's because Microsoft development locks you in, and costs a lot of money. The OS costs money, the server OS costs money, the database costs money, the IDE costs money, everything costs money, and you have to use it, for the life of your app. To many young developers these days, and IIS server is the thing your company keeps in the closet to some sluggish legacy monstrosity which has been replaced for yea…
Moreover, their business unit's licensing/pricing team are chasing your code forever to suck more margins from its use. While developing with MS technologies, you must accompany any code, tests and documentation with a "My License" folder with "licensing.cs" files to calculate, the implied licensing costs of each piece of code you develop along with all required MS components down to the metal. Finally, you must make…
I never ever ever read anything about it. Can you link some information related? Because googling it I can't find anything
Re: Introducing Bing Code Search for C#
#64This is really cool, I find the microsoft documentation particularly terrible.
I always had a chuckle when the first result for a simple C# concept and the result isn't a MSDN site. I also chuckle when the result is a forum post from 2005 that drops me into a link loop.
Thankfully I won't have to write C# for a long while. I can't say I will miss the MVC stack or the legacy burden you get with forms.
Re: Introducing Bing Code Search for C#
#65Having this for Monodevelop and Unity3d would be great. Even better if we have community curated suggestions.
Having this for any Language/IDE pair would be great!
Re: Introducing Bing Code Search for C#
#66mandatory crossplatform cli alternative howdoi [1]
vim howdoi plugin [2]
one of the few emacs plugins [3]
not sure if there are any other plugins, but that should cover a decent portion of interest here.
[1] https://github.com/gleitz/howdoi
[2] https://github.com/laurentgoudet/vim-howdoi
[3] https://github.com/arthurnn/howdoi-emacs
EDIT: sublime version https://github.com/azac/sublime-howdoi-direct-paste
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#67Earlier quoted context omitted.
I have done a lot of Java, Scala, etc. IntelliJ & Eclipse are both wonderful IDEs in their own right. A lot of things like ReSharper were in those IDEs before Jetbrains (maker of IntelliJ) made the plugin for VS. After trying VS for a couple of projects I found it completely baffling and backwards. And I don't think this is because VS is bad, but because the way I approach software is completely different. I want to…
It sounds like you just don't know Windows/VS/IIS as well as you know the other stacks which is entirely understandable since I'm guessing you don't work with them very often. For future reference you can compile VS projects from the command line if you want using MSBuild, that's all building in VS does. As far as IIS is concerned you can maintain all it's configuration via config files so an experienced Windows admi…
That is certainly the case. But I guess my point is both ecosystems are so completely divergent that it makes sense that .NET would be an uphill battle for shops not running it elsewhere.
I remember looking into MSBuild, but I couldn't get it to work. I must have had some path set wrong or something.
Re: Introducing Bing Code Search for C#
#68C# and .NET get a bad rap for being created by Microsoft. But one thing that can't be ignored is how polished their development tools are. I absolutely love coding in Visual Studio.
It pains me if I am honest. Our CMS is built on .NET and it's like an uphill battle selling it as it's on IIS and it's .NET. I have played around with the idea of reworking it into an open source language and open source database but I would miss Visual Studio and the language a lot. I don't get all the hate?
Visual Studio's Python and Ruby plugins seem quite decent and free if you're on VS Pro and up. You don't necessarily need to let VS go if you're to migrate to a language supported on more than one platform.
Re: Introducing Bing Code Search for C#
#69Earlier quoted context omitted.
Personally, it's because Microsoft development locks you in, and costs a lot of money. The OS costs money, the server OS costs money, the database costs money, the IDE costs money, everything costs money, and you have to use it, for the life of your app. To many young developers these days, and IIS server is the thing your company keeps in the closet to some sluggish legacy monstrosity which has been replaced for yea…
Moreover, their business unit's licensing/pricing team are chasing your code forever to suck more margins from its use. While developing with MS technologies, you must accompany any code, tests and documentation with a "My License" folder with "licensing.cs" files to calculate, the implied licensing costs of each piece of code you develop along with all required MS components down to the metal. Finally, you must make…
Having worked on many enterprise .NET projects I can assure you this is not true, at least in the general case. Licensing is definitely a complex beast but I have never heard of, or followed, this requirement
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#70Earlier quoted context omitted.
> fortunately those days are over and they've become mostly irrelevant, but everyone knows that given half a chance they'd do it again... Everyone I know for the most part types their documents in Microsoft Word on Windows computers. Sure, they got smartphones and tablets for the media consumption and facebook, but they don't even know an alternative "big boy" OS exists. They think Windows == computers. Which I think…
Maybe ten years ago I would have said that, but these days it seems they are typing their "documents" into an email composer or a website form (be it a frontend for blogger, wiki, wordpress, etc).
You mustn't work in an office environment then. The only significant break from MS products I've seen has been Lotus Notes... which was significantly worse than Exchange.
MS Office is the defacto file format for office work, and MS Office on non-Windows platforms (ie. Mac) is so bad as to appear intentionally crippled.